• n. 淤泥，泥沙；煤粉；殘渣
• vi. 淤塞，充塞；為淤泥堵塞
• vt. 使淤塞；充塞

來自古英語 sealt,鹽，詞源同 salt.原指海水沉積物，后引申詞義淤泥，淤沙，淤積，淤塞等。

silt

silt: [15] The likelihood is that silt originally referred to the mud in salt flats by river estuaries, and that it is etymologically related to salt. It was probably borrowed from a Scandinavian word – Danish and Norwegian have the apparently related sylt ‘salt marsh’.
=> salt

silt (n.)

mid-15c., originally "sediment deposited by seawater," probably from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian and Danish sylt "salt marsh"), or from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch silte, sulte "salt marsh, brine," from Proto-Germanic *sultjo- (cognates: Old English sealt, Old High German sulza "saltwater," German Sulze "brine"), from PIE *sal- (see salt (n.)).

silt (v.)

"to become choked with silt" (of river channels, harbors, etc.), 1799, from silt (n.). Related: Silted; silting.

1. Without huge investment the reservoirs will silt up.

如果沒有巨額投資的話，水庫肯定會淤塞。

來自柯林斯例句

2. During the annual floods the river deposits its silt on the fields.

每年河水泛濫時都會在田野上沉積一層淤泥.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

3. The water contains fine silt.

水里含有細泥沙.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. The channel is almost choked with silt.

水渠里淤了很多泥沙.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

5. The river deposited silt at its mouth.

河口沉積了淤泥.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》